Cuba arboretum
Cupaynicú
Christian Pirkl · CC BY-SA 4.0
72% trees around it and 96 species recorded.
- trees within 3 km72%
- wild within 10 km89%
- species recorded96
- Altitude128 m
The forest around
72% trees.
Read like the rings of a cut trunk: from the centre out, the land within 1, 3, 6 and 10 km, coloured by what covers it.
Trees, ring by ring
- 0–1 km88%
- 1–3 km70%
- 3–6 km62%
- 6–10 km56%
What covers the land (1–3 km)
- Trees70%
- Shrubland0%
- Grassland15%
- Wetland0%
- Water0%
- Cropland14%
- Built-up1%
ESA WorldCover 2021 (10 m, from Sentinel satellites), sampled every 120 m. A clearing, a road or a lake counts as what it is.
Who lives here
96 species recorded.
The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.
Open records within 2 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.
In numbers
The forest, measured.
Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).
- 72%Treesof the land within 3 km
- 89%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
- 96Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
- 128 mAltitudeabove the sea
When to walk
Best for walking from November to March.
How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.
- Jan19°19 mm
- Feb19°17 mm
- Mar20°24 mm
- Apr21°40 mm
- May23°89 mm
- Jun24°84 mm
- Jul24°47 mm
- Aug24°69 mm
- Sep24°78 mm
- Oct23°100 mm
- Nov21°42 mm
- Dec20°21 mm
- Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
- Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
- Rain: monthly total.
The place
Cupaynicú.
Botanical garden in Cuba
Cupaynicú is an arboretum in Cuba.
Seen from space, 72% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 89% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.
96 species have been recorded around it: 1 plants, 0 fungi, 95 birds and 0 mammals.
The best time to walk is from November to March.
Get there and walk
- Campamento de Pioneros Batalla de Guisacampsite · 4.1 km · 1 within 10 km
- Casa Dr. Efrenplace to stay · 10 km · 25 within 10 km
- Guisanearest town · 4.5 km in a straight line
- Carlos Manuel de Cespedes Airport (BYM)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 14 km in a straight lineCar hire at MBJ airport (Montego Bay)Discover Cars · sponsored link↗
Plan the visit
A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.
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From above
The forest and its surroundings.
The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the place, with the trails, notable trees, picnic sites and huts that OpenStreetMap shows.
Around, in OpenStreetMap
- 1named and notable trees within 6 kmmata de mango
- 1viewpoints within 5 kmMirador Guisa
- 1car parks within 3 km
- 1campsites within 10 kmCampamento de Pioneros Batalla de Guisa
- 25places to stay within 10 kmCasa Dr. Efren, ORLANDO, Casabel and 22 more
- 1restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- marked trails within 5 km
- picnic sites within 4 km
- shelters and huts within 6 km
- visitor centres within 6 km
Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.
In our other atlases
Around Cupaynicú.
The mountains, lakes, rivers, waterfalls and canyons around this forest, the viewpoints above it, the birds and the night sky, in the family's atlases.
Peakyas18 mountains within 25 kmFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.
Other forests nearby.
Cupaynicú
Cuba
- 72Forestyas Score
- 72%Trees
- 89%Wild
- 96Species
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q5926755) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Land cover | ESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0 |
| Species | 3,498 open records within 2 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only) |
| See these records | gbif.org |
| Names and photos | Wikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Altitude | Copernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA |
| Temperature and rain | NASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2) |
| What is around | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Sister atlases | Peakyas, Islandyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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